Instructional Staff

Instructors

Adam Wilke

Director of bands

​Adam Wilke is the Director of Bands. He has held this position for the past 6 years.Wilke Received his BA from Cal State, his MA from Cal State- Fresno and is currently DMA (ABD) with Boston University.Before he arrived in Union City Wilke served as the Director of Bands at Arroyo Grande HS; he was the Assoc. Director of Bands/Director of Jazz Studies at Clovis East HS; he was also the Interim Assoc. Director of Bands at Cal State Fresno.He is currently serving the profession as President of the California State Band Directors Association. He also served that organization as their Bulletin Editor from 2009 – 2016.

Patrick Refsnider

Associate director of bands

Before joining Logan, Patrick Refsnider was most recently Director of Bands at Aloha High School in Aloha, Oregon. He studied at the VanderCook College of Music in Chicago, Illinois, where he received his B.M. in Music Education in 2004. Patrick received his M.M. in Clarinet Performance from the University of Notre Dame in 2006. While at the University of Notre Dame Patrick served as Graduate Assistant to the Director of Bands. Prior to teaching at Aloha High School, Patrick taught at Sprague High School, Roseburg High School and served as Assistant Professor of Clarinet and Director of Continuing Education at VanderCook College of Music. Patrick studied clarinet with Ruth Rhodes of the Northwest Indiana Symphony and John Bruce Yeh, assistant principal clarinet of the Chicago Symphony Orchestra.

Chris Carrasco

Associate director of bands

Chris Carrasco oversees the design and teaching of Logan's percussion programs. Mr. Carrasco also works as a visual technician for the Blue Devils Drum and Bugle Corps (Concord, CA), and the Program Coordinator for the Blue Devils B Corps. He started these jobs after leaving a three year tenure with the Santa Clara Vanguard, where he worked as the movement specialist and choreographer for the Drum Corps and the Visual Designer for the Winter Percussion. Chris is also currently the Lead Choreographer for the Madison Scouts Drum and Bugle Corps (Madison, WI), and the Yokohama Scouts (Yokohama, Japan).